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Bubbles and Buyers: Are Individual Investors the Culprits?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
Which investor class causes stock price anomalies? Are individual investors responsible for prices that deviate from fundamental value? We address these questions in the context of a specific anomaly, that of stock price 'bubbles.' Using data from the Australian Stock Exchange Clearinghouse register, we investigate the Granger-causality between ...
Julia Henker, Thomas Henker
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Preferred risk habitat of individual investors☆

Journal of Financial Economics, 2008
Abstract The preferred risk habitat hypothesis, introduced here, is that individual investors select stocks whose volatilities are commensurate with their risk aversion. The data, 1995–2000 holdings of over 20,000 clients at a large German broker, are consistent with the predictions of the hypothesis: the returns of stocks within each portfolio have ...
Dorn, Daniel, Huberman, Gur
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A portrait of the individual investor

European Economic Review, 1998
Abstract Behavioral finance models often rely on a concept of noise traders who are prone to judgment and decision-making errors. What do noise traders do? We review prior research and present new survey evidence on the behavior of small individual investors who manage their own equity portfolios. Many people (1) discover naive patterns in past price
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Second-order beliefs and the individual investor

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014
In a panel survey of individual investors, we show that investors' second-order beliefs - their beliefs about the return expectations of other investors - influence investment decisions. Investors who believe others hold more optimistic stock market expectations allocate more of their own portfolio to stocks even after controlling for their own risk ...
Egan, Daniel, Merkle, Christoph, Weber, Martin   +2 more
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Marketing to the Individual Investor

ICFA Continuing Education Series, 1988
This presentation comes from the Serving the Individual Investor conference held in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 27, 1988.
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The individual investor on the JSE

Investment Analysts Journal, 1988
(1988). The individual investor on the JSE. Investment Analysts Journal: Vol. 17, No. 31, pp. 21-31.
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Individual investor trading and stock liquidity

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2013
Recent studies suggest that individual investors may have private information and their trading can be informative. Consistent with this observation, we find that stocks that are more heavily traded by individual investors have higher liquidity, after controlling for other determinants of liquidity. The result is robust to various model specifications,
Qin Wang, Jun Zhang
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Introduction: The Individual Investor

ICFA Continuing Education Series, 1987
This presentation comes from the Asset Allocation for the Individual Investor conference held in Los Angeles, California, on May 12-13, 1986 and Atlanta, Georgia, on June 4-5, 1986.
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Option Trading and Individual Investor Performance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
This paper examines the impact of option trading on individual investor performance. The results show that most investors incur substantial losses on their option investments, which are much larger than the losses from equity trading. We attribute the detrimental impact of option trading on investor performance to poor market timing that results from ...
Bauer, R., Cosemans, M., Eichholtz, P.
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Individual Investor Performance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
This paper discusses the performance of individual investors and theoretical discussion on the possible cause of the performance of individual investors.
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